Will a legalistic approach insure salvation?

Question

Living life in God's will is not a game and should not be approached ignorantly or frivolously. It is being within His will that assures our salvation and not all the legalism one may attach to God's plan.

Many people seem to think that all they have to do is in a moment of emotion and/or reason ascent to recognition of Christ being their savior and their salvation to eternal life is assured. From that point forward it makes no difference that their life is changed and they will live differently. The only thing that has changed is that evil in their lives as displayed outwardly and lived inwardly no longer has an effect on their eternity as their one act of acceptance has made them immune to the actions of their sins at judgment and obligated God to accept them into His presence. Some will go so far as to say that one's sinfulness and evil has nothing to do with the value of their souls before God because even the most evil, sinful soul is....

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Isaiah,

As a Catholic I agree but why don't you address the question?

Sweet Sweet Jane,

I have an opinion and am asking for others opinions. I thought that was obvious.

Wuvie,

Read the link, that is not what I am saying at all.

Answer 1

Believe and trust in Jesus, repent of your sins, be baptized, receive the Eucharist, and obey the will of God as taught to us in the Bible and the constant teachings of the Church.

Love God with all your heart and mind and soul and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.

Answer 2

St Paul, who persecuted and aided in the killing of Christians before his conversion, had this to say about the seriousness of walking in the footsteps of Christ: "my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you . . ." Philippians 2:12

In Hebrews 10, he has this to say about the consequences of living unworthy of the promises of Christ: "26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, 27 but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. 28 Anyone who rejected the law of Moses died without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much more severely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God under foot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," and again, "The Lord will judge his people." 31 It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God."

Faith is not mere words, it is not an idle contract with God, but it is conversion of thought and behavior, until you have fully put on the mind of Christ.

Answer 3

Are you honestly entertaining the thought of
legally enforcing people to suspend rational
thought and subscribe to religious ideas or
have I had too much wine tonight?

Answer 4

You don't have to believe in the fable to be saved. See: Jewish people...they're saved because of the covenant they have with God

Answer 5

they would never make religion a legal requirement, it would produce false 'faith' and they would be an up roar and if they did i would be on the first plane to japan.

Answer 6

wonderful way of putting it.

Answer 7

Aren't you answering your own question??

Answer 8

we are saved by grace and not works